He’ll be back stripping with the rest of the Magic Mike gang for Magic Mike XXL this year, but Matt Bomer intends to keep more clothes on for another new role. He’s signing on to the cast of Antoine Fuqua’s new take on **The Magnificent Seven{
The story for this one follows a familiar path, albeit with a tweak: a robber baron and his henchmen (including Jason Momoa) target a small town perched near a gold mine. When the villains kill several people in their attempt to take the place over, a young woman (Haley Bennett) hires a bounty hunter (Denzel Washington) to dispatch the bad guys, supplying him with the necessary funds to hire six gunmen to help him in his mission. Which is where Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Luke Grimes, Wagner Moura, Byung-hun Lee and Vincent D’Onofrio come into play. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bomer is aboard as Bennett’s husband, so we don’t like his chances of making it to the end credits all that much.
John Lee Hancock and True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto are among those who have contributed to the screenplay, adapted from the classic Seven Samurai, which became the first crack at a Magnificent Seven in 1960. Fuqua’s version recently locked in a January 2017 release across the pond and in the UK. He’s scheduled to get the bullets flying soon.
Bomer, as mentioned, will be seen in the Magic Mike sequel (out here on July 3), and he’s part of the cast for Shane Black’s new crime thriller,** The Nice Guys**, which arrives on June 3, 2016.